AMD at Hot Chips: building for the data center

  As gains slowdown from process improvements and die size, power gains require improvements to all aspects of the system. The best way to push semiconductor gains forward says Lisa Su, is to improve all components. (Source AMD) Lisa Su came to Hot Chips this year and provided an overview of AMD’s strategy for development to keep up with the demands of the data center. She described an explosion around HPC driven by the development of AI/ML. She said that IoT and big data are also pushing demands for CPU and GPU compute power. HPC and new Machine Learning methods